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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what else do Meg and Pat argue?
(a) Pat's missing leg.
(b) Pat's ability to deal with the Soldier.
(c) Whether Meg has any right to argue because she's too young to remember the IRA's first battles in the early 1900's.
(d) Whether Meg should know many details about the arrival of this prisoner.

2. Why are they both captured and held hostage?
(a) As part of the ongoing hostilities between the United States and the Nazi party.
(b) They are breaking the law.
(c) As part of the ongoing hostilities between the Irish Republican Army and the British government.
(d) The property for which they care is under investigation.

3. What serves as a transition into the first scene?
(a) A scream.
(b) A loud noise.
(c) A gunshot.
(d) A blast of bagpipes.

4. What do Meg, Teresa and Mulleady discuss?
(a) How horrible the Officer is.
(b) How the British prisoner must be feeling.
(c) How Pat could go along with this plan.
(d) How the Irish prisoner must be feeling.

5. What does Pat sing?
(a) A dramatic song about the IRA.
(b) A lament about a laughing soldier killed for the Irish cause.
(c) A humorous song about England.
(d) A love song to Ireland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Meg and Pat say drove Monsewer half mad?

2. Of what is Pat afraid, regarding the IRA's cause?

3. Who are the caretakers?

4. What does Pat promise to sing?

5. Who speaks angrily to the characters?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pat tell the Soldier about his situation?

2. What happens when Teresa enters the room?

3. How does Teresa act when she finds out the Officer did not give the Soldier the cigarettes? How does the Soldier respond?

4. What does Pat have to say about his first meeting with Monsewer?

5. What is revealed about Mulleady and Meg in the beginning of this scene?

6. What story does Pat tell, after the Soldier demands to know what he did to deserve this treatment?

7. What do Pat and Meg think about the kidnapping of the British soldier?

8. What takes place while Teresa is under the bed?

9. How do Teresa and Meg feel about Monsewer?

10. What transitions into the first scene?

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